
Specialist of Lowland Maya cultures and languages, Valentina Vapnarsky has been carrying out fieldwork in Guatemala and Mexico since 1991. Her work focuses on regimes of temporality, agency and memory analyzed within an interactional approach of communicative practices. She has also developed comparative analysis on grammatical aspects of Amerindian languages.
Valentina Vapnarsky has directed a number of international projects, edited books/special issues and published numerous articles on these topics. She is director of the Centre de Recherche et Enseignement en Ethnologie Amérindienne (EREA) of the LESC (CNRS & UPO) and currently teaches at the University of Paris Ouest and at the INALCO (Paris).
Valentina Vapnarsky has directed a number of international projects, edited books/special issues and published numerous articles on these topics. She is director of the Centre de Recherche et Enseignement en Ethnologie Amérindienne (EREA) of the LESC (CNRS & UPO) and currently teaches at the University of Paris Ouest and at the INALCO (Paris).
Sessions auxquelles Dr Valentina Vapnarsky participe
11:00
11:00
- 11.00 Introductory words
- Participant.e Dr Valentina Vapnarsky (CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France) | Participant.e Dr Anath Ariel de Vidas (CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France) |
- 11:00 - 11:15 | 15 minutes Partie de: Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives I | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones I
- Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives I | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Heritagization (the various means by which cultural features—either material or immaterial—are turned into a people’s heritage) has recently become...
- Regular session
9:00
9:00
- Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Heritagization (the various means by which cultural features—either material or immaterial—are turned into a people’s heritage) has recently become...
- Regular session
- 12.00 Discussion et conclusions
- Participant.e Dr Valentina Vapnarsky (CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II
- La question de la « mise en patrimoine » d’éléments culturels devient depuis plusieurs années l’un des moyens par lesquels les groupes amérindie...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Dr Valentina Vapnarsky assiste
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Inscription req. Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 heures 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 heure
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

18:30
18:30
- Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 18:30 - 20:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

7:30
7:30
- Discovering katajjaniq – Nunavik’s Inuit throat singing | À la découverte du katajjaniq – le chant de gorge inuit du Nunavik
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle des boiseries (J-2805)
- 7:30 - 8:30 | 1 heure
- In English and French The two Inuit artists Nina Segalowitz and Taqralik Partridge are offering us an initiation to katajjaniq, this thousand...
- Event